The New York Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1861, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. ———ee JAMES \Guav0N BESNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. PYICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. 5 cauh tm atoanen, Money sent by enatt wit be af che sender. Nome ina ‘bills current in New York 1, 87 per annum. j, Gt whe conte per ‘Edition cvery Wednesday, ‘Sell tojnclde plage, the THE RAMILY HERALD, on Wednesday, at four conte per “Soe Bunting ‘exerted with neatness, cheapness and de- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDBN, Broadway.—Nrxon's Roa. C1nous. WINTER GARD*N, “roadway, ite Bond street.— Baars in Hx Woop—Tunnine mut Tavces, WALLACE’S THSATEE, Groa¢way.—Hexuretre—Por- FING THE QUESTION. 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Single copies, in wrap- pers, six cents. ‘The contents of the Kuxoran Eormon or Tus Hera will combine the news received by mati and telegraph at the office during the previous week aad up to the hour of Pubiication. New Vork. The Nows. The election for Sta e officers and members of Congress in Connec icut took place yesterday. From the returns published in another column it is pretty evident that the republicans have carried the State, and by an increased majority over the Jast election. Like several of his predecessors, President Lin- coln has been unable to withstand the wear and tear upon his physical and mental powers conse- quent upon his official duties, He is reported as being quite ill—so mulch so as to debar him from all intercourse with visiters. Even the most press- ing official business was postponed yesterday on account of his indisposition. The three Confederate States envoys to the Eu- ropean courts are now en route. Mr. Dudley Mann sailed from this port on Saturday, on board the Arago, while Messrs. Yancey and Rost sailed trom New Orleans yesterday for Hav where they will embark on board the British mail steamer for Europe. The United States Am- Dassadors will be despatched abroad with as lit- tle delay as possible. An outline of the instruc- tions of the State Department to the last men- tioned functionaries is given among our Washing- ton despatches this morning. The Morrill tariff went into operation yesterday, ‘and created trouble, confusion and aunoyance among the merchants, brokers, clerks, &c. A graphic account of the scenes atthe Custom douse will be found in another column, and will repay ‘perusal. The bill to amend our city charter, in relation to the Bureau of Assessments, engaged @ consider- able portion of the time of the State Assembly yesterday, in Committee of the Whole. After a jong debate, progress was reported. The Swill Milk bill was reported to the House. The Senate bill to amend the Corn Exchange charter was or- dered to a third reading. A number of bills were reported favorably; amomy them that amending the act regulating the port of New York. Con- siderable other misce!ianeons business was trans- acted by the Assembly. The overland express, with San Francisco ad- vices to the 20th pit., arrived at Fort Kearny yes- terday. The Legislature had made no progress towards clecting a United States Senator. The markets remained without change, save some ac- tivity in liquors, in consequence of the new tariff act. The disabled steamer Uncle Sam had arrived at San Francisco. The sloop-of-war Wyoming, from Honolulu, had also arrived: By the brig Echo, arrived ot this port, we are in receipt of files of Hayti papers to the 9th ult. ‘The most important news they contain relates to the movements of Spain in the neighboring repub- lic of San Domingo. We give elsewhere a copy of a proclamation, issued ostensibly by the Domi- nican people, calling for resistance to the in vaders. We are in possession of files from Laguayra, Venezuela, to March 14. General Paez arrived at that port on the 13th, on board the Joseph Max- well, from Philadelphia, and was received with every mark of respect. A salute of thirteen guns was fired and any amount of speeches delivered. M. de Toureil, French Charge d'Affaires" in the absence of M. Mellinet, who is in Europe, died at Carracas on March 1. His funeral was attended by all the dignitaries of the republic and the foreign representatives. ‘The Canary Islanders were returning in conside- rable numbers from San Domingo, most of them ina very destitute condition. The greatest har- mony prevails for the present between Spain and Venevuela. ‘The al t Valencia, which we noticed the cther day, was simply an emente by a@ battalion of government troops stationed at that place, who took possession of the town during the night and liberated all the prisoners. During the next day they were attacked and dis- persed, with a few killed and wounded. The dis- cussion in regard to the proposed English loan has become quite bitter, and the papers on both sides are decidedly personal in their remarks, The Bervadio Opera troupe, with Madame Cortesi and other well known artists, was expected daily at Carracne. The storeship Release was to have left-tho Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday for Florida, but she had not completed the in of her smaller stores, Bosides, as she is vessel, sho would not have left in the & snow storm and the prevailing head |. If the weather should be favorable, and the stores are all got on board, the Release will sail to-morrow. We are authorized to say that the reported intention of government to order the construction of the six new war steamers in the Brooklyn Navy Yard is without foundation. Another great change occurred in the weather yesterday. The morning was lowering and blus- try, threatening a beavy fall of ra But, instead of reining, about three o'cloc! and snow com menced to fall, continuing until poar eigit o'clock hail and sleet showered down upon the streets, rendering the night one of the drearicst it is possi- die 16 conceive. ‘The Board of Aldermen met last evening, but transacted no business of general interest. The Board of Councilmen held a short session last evening, only thirteen members being present. After the minutes of the previous meeting were read, a number of reports were presented and laid over. A communication was received from the Croton Aqueduct Department, in relation to the cost of the trap block pavement and the appro- priations made therefor since its introduction. The paper was ordered to be printed in the nutes, after which the Board adjourned till Thurs- day. The April term of the Court of General Seasions was commenced yesterday, Recorder Hoffman presiding. The Grand Jury were discharged uati! the 15th inst., in consequence of the Grand Jury of the Oyer and Terminer being in session. The whole of the day was occupied in the trial of Hugh Ward, charged with a felonious assault upon his wife, committed on the Lith of February, in ave nue A. He asked her for some money, and on her declining to give it pointed a pistol at her mouth aud snapped it. The shot did not take ef- fect, whereupez he stabbed her in the breast and bowels, and inflicted other wounds. The jury convicted Ward, and he was remanded for sen- tence. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 406 deaths in this city during the past week a decrease of 6 as compared with the :nortality of the week previous, and 40 less than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The recapitulation taLle gives 68 deaths of dis- eases of the brain and nerves, 7 of the generative organs, 12 of the heart and blood vessels, 149 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 8 of old age, 69 of skin and eruptive fevers, 7 premature births, 54 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; 29 of general fevers, 2 of diseases of the urinary organs, and 1 unknown of which 10 were from violent causes. The na- tivity table gives 276 natives of the United States, 7 of England, 81 of Ireland, 26 of Germany, 2 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign coun- tries. The cotton market yesterday continued frm, with eales of 3,000 bales, and a rumor of 1,000 bales more, which ¥e could not trace. Prices <tosed firm on the basis of 125;0. a 12Xc. for middling uplands. Flour was firm and active under the news, with a good demand from the trade and for export. Wheat was in good de- wand, both for export and milling, closing at an advance of Ic. a 2c. per bushel. Corn was steady, with fair sales at “unchanged prices. Pork sold to a moderate extent, whi e+prives were firm, closing at $16 81 a $16 87% for mets, and $1260 a $13 for prime. Sugars were firm and active, with sales of 1.304 hhds., chiefly Cubs; 416 do. melado, and 40 do. Texas, at prices given in another place. An a:count of stocks wil; be found in another column. Coffee was firm, with light ses. The stock embraced about 41,000 bags Rio and 62,122 do. of all kinds, and 4,674 mats Java The stock of rice embraced 9,126 casks Carolina and 3,200 bags Fast India, against 12,972 casks of Carolina at the same time in 1860. Freight engagements were light and rates steady. * The Connecticut Election. The Connecticut election of yesterday, for members of Congress, State officers, &Xc., ap- pears to have gone for the republicans by de- fault. The opposition elements, fighting under the obsolete flag of the demoralized, disrupted and disbanded democracy, have made a sorry show of resistance. Wedare say that hundreds of conservative men of democratic antecedents, appreciating the folly of parading to the music of the democratic party, when that party is de- fupct and decomposed, took no part in this election. On the other hand, the administra- tion at Washington has been particularly caa- tious in avoiding any proceeding in regard to the spoils, and every mearure of public policy, calculated to dampen the ardor of the spoils republicans in the work of this Con- necticut contest. The federal offices in said State have been held in abeyance, and the evacuation of Fort Sumter has been delayed for fear of the consequences to the party in this election of a more decided policy in either case. Doubtless, too, the appointment of Mc. Videen Welles as a member of Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet was made, not because of the superior quelifications of the man for the place, but because, as @ Connecticut man, his appointment woulo be apt to turn on election day to the advantage of tre administration and its party. onpecticut, of alt the New England States, tas beretofore been most stoutly con- t-sted by the oppogition to the old whig party and the present anti-slavery coslition of toe North. The State lies sufficiently near the great conservative city of New York to feel somewhat the pressure of its public opinion, end ia cvfficiently interested in a Southern market for Northern manufactures to compre- hend tbe yalue of the Union, But the Union clements of Connecticut, and of every other state, North and South, are now all at sea Thus, while the republicans, in the adminis- tration and in the Congress at Washington, have that substantial power which the opposi tion baa lost, the conservative men of the North are as yet without organization, without any fixed or common purpose, and without a pro- mise of any compensating results to their labors. Wish half the Southern States out of the Union, and with tbe other half drifting steacily towards Montgomery, Alabama, it was expecting too much to expect a Union revolu- tion in Connecticut within a month of Mr. Lincoln's inauguration. We had a very little hope of a Northern re- action so early in the day. The triumph achieved after a forty years’ agitation on the part of our anti-slavery holy alliance is not to be overthrown in a petty skirmish of a little State election. We had anticipated, however, from this election, some manifestations of a turn in the tide, some cheering evidences of the beginning of a counter revolution, in favor of the reconstruction of the Union, including the seceded States. But with the returns before us this hope vanishes. The day of a whole- some Northern Union reaction is still in the future. Will it ever come? We canaot answer. We are only sure that the overthrow of this antislavery republican party in the North must precede any encouraging move- ments for the restoration of the Union in the South. Meantime it is probable that this April triumph of the republicans ia Connecticut will turn over Virginia to the secessionists in May; and next, the Convention of the border slave States at Frankfort, Kentucky, may, from the same causes, be carried in the same direction. From all the signs of the times, including this Connecticut election, the discouraging inaction of Mr. Lincoln’s administration, the disorga- nized condition of the Union forces of the country, and the domineering attitude of the republican party, we apprehend that we are destined to suffer at least four years of polid- cal and floancial chaos, and that we are now only at the threshold of the terrible and pro- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1861 when another change took place. Rain, snow, | Wem. , p usb’, escape the fearful calamities The Government and ite Organs Making ‘of e civil. wee, but even upon this point there is uo security in the present state of things, The “irrepressible coi ” between the North end South is indeed upon us at last; and as the Confederate States are etriking deliberately at the commercial supremacy of the North, and for Southern commercial independence, we must await now the issue of this contest, and the end of this administration, before we of the North can hope for better times, or for any re- construction of the Union. Important Newspaper Missiom from Eng- land to the United States. We have abundaut evidence that the eyes of Eurepe, and more particulariy Great Britain, are watching the progress of events in this | country with no common interest and anxiety. | We bave it from the lips of sovereigns and statesmen, the columps of newspapers and the oral and written assurances of private indi- viduals. The Duke of Newcastle only ex- pressed the popular feeling of his countrymen when, in a recent letter to a gentleman con- nected with this journal. he said, “ Let mo assure you and those with whom you are associated how anxiously we all desire in this country to eee a happy termination to the troubles which are now afilicting the United States, The ac- counts from thence are watched with an intensity of interest scarcely less than that which three years ago attached to every mail from India.” This interest arises pro- bably as much from the commercial relations subsisting between the two great sections of the Anglo-Saxon race as from genuine sympa- thy with us as a branch of the same family, and the founders of a mighty republic, which has been the pride of America and the admiration of the world. But that it does exist is a good sign, speaking well for the friendship of the Old World with the New, and showing that our case is not yet considered hopeless. The visit of the Prince of Wales to this coun- try seems to have inspired the English with fresh impulses and new ideas in our favor, and at the same time to have increased the interest of Americans in monarchical institutions; and this feeling is still in the course of develope- ment. The London Times on that occasion sent a correspondent to chronicle the royal pro- gress, and the result of that enterprise—uofor- tunate as the Times was in the selection of a man whose wilful misstatements were only more outrageous than his ignorance and imbecility— was to lead the English mind to inquire into us as a people, and speak of and lean towards us with a friendly warmth. American news- papers, apd extracts from American newspa- pers, were eagerly perused, and the books of travellers professing to describe our country, our manners, our customs and our institutions were read with avidity. The condition of the United States was very different at that time— recent as it is—to the present, although the storm was seen to be brewing in the proba- ble election of Mr. Linovln. The same journal has now sent to this country apotber correspondent, but to watch the progress of an event of a very opposite cbaracter to that which fell to the lot of his predecessor. We congratulate the Times on its change of man, although we are by no means in expectation that Mr. Russell, bril- liant in descriptive power as he is, will suc- ceed in solving what we are unable to solve ourselves. Politics with us are unfortunately wore complicated and fall of techaicalities than ia any other free couatry in the world. We may attribute this in a great measure to the fact of nearly all our politicians being lawyers, and vice versa, and these endeavor to hide the real issue of a question for the sake ot party purposes. In the practice of this chi- cunery a previous acquaintance with the wiles of the law is po doubt much to be desired. Fortunately, however, Mr. Russell has a wide field for usefulness open to him in the Southera States. He can there dwell upon a subject which is vital to everything political that now agitates and distresses America, from Florida to Maine, and itis at the same time one upon which any intelligent and impartial stranger is cupable of forming an opinion. If that gentle- man will only make a caretul tour of the slave States, inquiring caretully and minutely as he goes into the condition of the slaves, and then give to the British public, through the columas of the leading English journal, an unbiassed account of all that he saw aod learned, he will doa positive service to the British and American people. He will thereby dispel a vast amount of ignorance and misappre- hension which prevails concerning the real working of the patriarchal system of ser- vitude called slavery, and the condition of the slaves. He will let the world know that the slave pophlation of the South has since 1798 increased from five hundred thousand to four millions—a greater ratio of increase than ever negroes experienced in their native Africa And this one grent fact will of itself testify to the manner in which toey are housed, fed, clotbed and cared for, while the superiority of their moral, social and physical condition to that of the free negroes will be at once appa- rent by a comparison of statistics, Let Mr, Rusecll compare the happy, contented lot of these slaves of the South with that of the white slaves of England, and, indeed, of nearly all Europe, and say whioh class of the two really enjoys physical existence the most. Let him remember, at the same time, that the negro be- longs to a race inferior to our own; that he is naturally indolent, unintellectual, unenterpris- ing and unaspiring, and that the labor of the hands is the oily work that he is fitted to per- form. The ignorance and prejudice under which the bulk of the British public labor respecting slavery in the United States is both ridiculous and deplorable, and muny of the British joar- nalists are mot better informed or less deluded than the people they address, if we may jadge from the absurd articles we have read in one or two of the London newspapers, and which read more like the chronicles of dreams than accounts of what are supposed to be actual facts. One good result will be accomplished by Mr. Russell’s mission to this country if he succeeds in correcting these mistaken ideas. It is a task requiring some courage to combat prejudices on fair grounds, as was instanced in the case of the Hon. Miss Murray, one of the maids of honor to the Queen, who wrote a lucid and candid narrative of hor travels in the slave States, and thereby incurred reproach at home. But it ie to be hoped that the London Times will not hesitate to speak the truth, whatever misinformed people may think or say. We side with no party. but we are anxious tha 2u institutions snould not be misrepresented an Cuithe deforming influence tracted @nanoial revulsion whioh is before us. | of abolitionism. Baa Worse By reference to our Washington telegraphic intelligence, it will be seen that, bad as are the affairs of the Union, and desperate as they mist appear to the great Powers of Europe, our Se- cretary of State is hard at work to make them worse. In the instructions which be is prepar- tng for the newly appointed Ministers to Euro- pean Courts, it seems he labors to disparage the Southern republic and to misrepresent its institutions, the first time such @ course has been adopted since the foundation of the government. Mr. Seward, seeing that the Mor- rill tariff, and an unwavering allegiance to King Cotton, paramount to anti-slavery prejudice, have damaged the interests of the Northern confederacy on the other side of the Atlaatic, and made friends for the South, proceeds eagerly to counteract those effects und to ex- tend the irrepresible conflict to the battle fields of diplomacy in Europe But his efforts will not only fail, but probably inflict new in- jury upon the country. He will only offi vially confirm what has reached Europe through i 6 ambassadors or through our journals, that the Union is split into two halves, and that the Con- federate States, in point of fact, are no loager under the goverument at Washington—other- wise they would pot be maligned. In like maoner the republican journals of this city are terribly excited about the news which bas recently arrived from Europe, that all the manufacturing and commercial in- terests of Englund and France—the interests which always sway the foreign policy of those nations—are greatly excited against the North, and, in despite of their anti slavery sentiments, are procla‘mipg their sympathies in favor of the South; and that the organs of public opinion and the organs uf the governments alike foreehadow European policy in America as hostile to the North. The republican jour nals conclude that the proceedings of Spain in San Domingo are but the prelude to the opera- tions of all the fillbustering Powers of Europe, and that France and Eogland have already sent out their fleets to the Gulf with sealed orders. Whether this last piece of intelligence is de rived from any authentic source or not makes little difference; for it is just what these gov erpmenta are likely to do under the circum- stances. England has been always a filibuster- ing Power. There is no part of the earth in which she has not established colonies or sought to plant them. France has pursued the same career, with more or less succes, and Spain, awakening from ber sleep, is reviving her old policy. If her ability were only equal to her will sbe would outstrip the two leading Powers in schemes of annexation and self-ag- grapdizement. As it is, she has not the fear of the Monroe doctrine before her eyes, and she takes time by the forelock in seizing upon her sbare of ils. Beholding the great Ame- rican Union divided into two antagonistic sec- tions, she treats both with contemptuous indiffer- ence. But she is only the jackall. The lion of England and the eagle of France will soon tollow her tracks, and the island of San Juan, Central America and Mexico will become their devoted prey. The cotton confederacy and the government of the rump Union, both anx- ious to curry European favor, and both too much afraid and too jealous of each other to combine in repelling encroachments upon their common interests, will be only too happy if they are let alone even for a time in their present status, and the erowned heads of Europe do not proceed to recover the colonial possessions they have lost. Such is the degradation and danger to which the democratic States of North America are now reduced. But the instructions of Mr. Seward and the writings in the republican journals are calculated to invite encroach- ment, intervention, occupation, and even in- vasion. They expose the weak spot where the wedge may be effectually inserted and driven home to divide North and South forever, if it does not enslave the white men of both instead of the negroes of the Southern States. The Vimes and other republican joufnals of New York denounce the Morrill tariff, and thus play into the hands of the European govern- ments. The Tribune, on the contrary, with more fanatical consistency, upholds the tariff, but foments civil war, which equally makes the game of foreign despots. The truth is, that all these journals are at their wits end, like drunken jen, who either cannot sce the length of their noses before them, or, if they do discern anything, see it double or turned up- side down. Wirxeson on Weep.—When politicians fall out and photograph each other the public ob- ‘ains a large amount of valuable information. Asa general rule we receive only rose-colored portraits of prominent individuals. An editor is always able, terse. and vigorous; a country politician is defined as an eloquent orator and a splendid statesman; ajadge, who could not pase an examination in Nevada, is declared to be a second Mansfield. In no previous age, and in no other country, has the sublime art of puffing been carried to the same extent as in the land of the free and the home ot the brave Everybody is eloquent, gifted and clever. There are no fools, no asses, no commonplace people, no thieves, among our public men, That is the outside view of the matter. Occasionally, however, the curtain is accidentally lifted, and we see the actors without their paint and minus their spangles; that *is, when, as in the case of Weed vs. Wilkeson, they begin to use the camera upon each other. Wilkeson has lately undertaken to give us an imperial pho tograph of Weed; and, like Brady, he has per- severed till the end. "lis first effort was good, bis second better, hut his third—of which we give a copy elsewhere—is the best of all. The light and shade are pertect, and the great apos- tle of free wool, the Central Railway, and the lobby gencrally, is sketched to the lite. Weed is described by Wilkceon as the “Albany Fa- gin,” and the puppets about bim as the little boys whom he trains in the art of picking the public pocket. He has circumyallated “the Senate and Assembly chambers with a cordon of thieves;” he is responsible for “the birth and existence of the Albany lobby;” he has reached the “eminence of infamy;” his “soul bas trafficked in other souls, and made merchandise of men’s weaknesses and ne cossities; distinctions of politics as well as of morality are unknown to him;” ho “has cheer- fully tied up and tangled his integrity, and compromised republicaniem with the captains of the slave power;” he as conspired against the canal interest and sold bimselt to the Cen tral Railway; be commits the “pablic pro- perty and interests to thieves, rogues, faro cealers, defaulters, bankrupts and drunkards,” and 60 on, We give this pleasant picture to our readers with the single remark that the artist hes had the very best opportunity to make himself ac- quainted with his subject, and bas evidently entered upon his labors with that esprit which, in the fine arts, is the primary essential of success. Read Wilkeson upon Weed. Tae Cuxvater Wixorr Baepiy Treatep.— The ivfidel, lager bier, spoils gormandizing, free love phalanx of the Tribune object very indigpantly to Wikoff being paid one or two thousend dollars for his services te the govern- ment as bearer of despatches to St. Petersburg andtoCbina. They say thaghe did not go to Rus- sia or to China, and is therefore not entitled to bis pay. But we oan say that the Chevalier Wikoff, as bearer of despatches from Wash- ington, did go to St. Petersburg, and that if he GG not go all the way out to China, it was be- cauce the government failed to provide him the ways and means. He did, however, dis- charge his duty in the premises in securing the transmission of his despatches to their desti- nation; but the government bas meglected to pay bim for either Russia or China Mr. Bu cbavan bad eo many otber irons in the ire that it is no wonder be overlooked Wikoff’s little bill. Honest Abe Lincoln, as the admini-- trator of Mr. Buchanan’s legacies, should at tend to it; but if Honest Old Abe is to be guided by our Fourierite phalanx, we may ex pect to bear of forty diplomatic appointments made from our ranting, infidel, red republican lager bier refugees before we hear of the psyment of this honest claim of Wikoff, who i+ a diplomat, a scholar and a gentleman. It is probable, however, that Mr. Seward may over rule in this litle matter, at least, the remon strances of the Tribune office. But nous verrons Mosicai. MatTers—Concert oF MapEMor SELLE Speranza.—Those of our readers who are interested in operatic affairs may recollec: the debut of Mademoiselle Speranza, a young prima donna, who was engaged by one of the Academy managers for the season of 1859-60. and who diravpeared from public view after singing a night or two. This Jady, Adelaide Speranza, had previously sung in the principal Italian theatres, and had been praised by the best critics for the purity and tenderness of ber voice—a clear, resonant soprano sfogato—a+ well as the exact justice of her intonation and the perfection of her method. She came to the United States, accompanied by her father and mother, and essayed a debut The result was not successful, the prima donna suffering from the effecta of the sea voyage, and afterward: remaining in delicate health duriog nearly » yeur. We understand that, thanks to a distinguithed physician of this city, she hes pow recovered her voice, and is ready to ap- pear before the public. In conjunction with her mother—Madame Assunta Speranza—a very fine contralto singer, Mr. Millard (tenor), Signor Centimeri (baritone), and Sigoor Villa- nova, a celebrated performer on the Alexandre organ, Mile. Speranza will give a grand con- ‘cert.on the evening of the 10th. A number of connoisseurs, who have had the pleasure to hear Mile. Speranza since her recovery, and were very much delighted with her voice and execution, have prevailed upon her to give this concert, which will be, without doubt, a very successful affair. The beau monde will come out in full force for the Speranza concert Virarsia Taine 4 Stanp Acarsst Strenctn- ENING THE Forts.—In the House of Delegates now in session at Richmond, Va., a resolution was passed on Saturday night protesting against the removal of arms and armaments in that State by the government at Washington. It appears that fifty heavy guns have just been completed for the federal government at the Bellona foundry, near Richmond, which Mr Lincoln has ordered to be delivered to Fort Monroe; but the Virginia Legislature, by the above resolution, declares that they shall not be £0 delivered while the State Convention ix considering the question of secession; and, fur- ther, that the Governor shall be empowered “to call out the public guard to arrest the con- templated removal, und directing him to em- ploy the needful force to resist any attempt to remove the guns beyond the reacn and conicol of the State government.” This is a decided step on the part of Virginia towards resisting the intention of tne adminis tration to reinforce the Southern fortresses, and savors of nullification, if not of secession. Lin coln will probably find it as hard to carry out a coercive policy in the border States as io those already seceded. Barney, our new Collector, will eater upon the duties of his office in a few days. He is Mr. Se- cretary Chase’s man, and, being an old Van Buren barpburner, it is quite probable that the old barnburners will come in for the lion’- share of the Custom House piunder. Thurlow Weed, they say, is negotiating to buy up the re- mains of old Tammany; butas Barney can out- bid him, Weed will be apt to fail. Kuuixe Orr Great Men—The organs of Tammany Hall, after having killed off Fernando Wood a half dozen times, are pitching in to kill him off again. The irrepressible Fernando appears to have the nine lives of a cat, and if the Tammany sachems will ouly persevere in their efforts to kill him, they will make a great men of himMet. And so with John Cochrane. They have undertaken to kill him off, from which it is safe to conclude that Cochrane is a rising man, and stronger than the Old Wigwam. Increask OF TaxaTion.—The taxes of this city now amount to twelve millions of dollars, equal to two per cent of the valae of its real estate, or one-third of the entire rental, which is about thirty-six millions. This taxation ex ceeds by two millions per annum the entire cost of governing Groat Britain at the time of its last revolution. With this fearful load of taxation bowing the city of New York to the earth, will it, we ask, kneel down like the patient camel to receive the additiona burthens which the Lincoln administration are preparing to heap upon it, till at last its back bresks? While taxes are laid onin the shape of loans, the interest of which is to be paid by duties, the governivent is doing everything it can to diminish the receipt of revenue, aud to impair the ability of the citivens to meet taxa ion by destroying their commerce, and by sending it to Southern ports thrumpla the ope- ration of the Murrill tariff. By its menaces of war end by ita oracular and mystertons ambi- gnity, it is paralyzing all the operations of trade, alatine when i woat peads money. Direc: avation will, in the ead, prees upon ne fike wo intolerable incubue, when other sources o. re venue fail. Thus the policy of the government appears to be to increase our public burtheas when it diminishes our ways and means, and cripples the power of thifpeople to pay. Uni- vereal bankruptcy must soon be the inevitable result, [ae Axpany, April 1, 1861. Petitions have been presented to the House in favor of a bill (0 prevent the sale of swill milk, and in favor of the bill Limiting the tenure of office of the militia, The Committee on Commerce and Navigation of the House reported the Harlem Bridge bill, with the section stricken that refers to the existing contracts. Mr. Taber offered a resolution declaring the Assistant District Attorney of Albany in contempt to the House by Improperly attempting to influence the votes of a mem- ber. Other than and distinct from the public advantage, therefore, the said John M. Nelson, having committed « breach of its privileges, be brought to the bar of the Houre by the Sergeant at-Arms, to answer such charge. ‘The resolution, after a short debate, was adopted by a vote of 45 to 26, This vote is significant of the fooling existing hore, and shows plainly that a majority consider that Mr. Gibbons is not the only guilty person in that transaction. Tho bill providing the means for the support of the ge- vernment, or the State levy tax, was ordered toa third eading in the Assembly. The amount to be levied by a ax for the general fund is sevea-eighths of a mill. Last year there was levied for the same purpose one and one igbth of a mill. The amount this year is one-quarter of ‘a Wor! Lees thao lust year. : ‘Tho bili appointwg a commissioner to inspect steam boilers bad the erite..°% Clause stricken out this evening. It is @ pity that a good law Could not be enacted to pre- vent ‘he bumerous boiler exp!6itos2 14 New York; but tins bil was ayeguiar monopoly. ‘A motion was mage in the Senate to-night to reconsi- oer the yote aopoiniing ani investigating committee ¢o im- quire mto the oficial misconduct of ths Mayor and Com ome of the city Fg bine hip oO a There to be quite a com! on subject, ana it looke as though’ the “sring’” had got. trighvased, »b@ that the “Ring”? in the Senate was coming to their rescue The motion to reconsider was laid on the table, and wlll be goon brought up, when we shall be able to eee who bas been “eeen.’’ BEW YORK LEGISLATURE. Assembly. Ausany, April 1, 1861. The Assembly met at half-past three o'clock, sixty- seven members being present. Wr Wexssrax presented petitions against the Metropoli- tan Cab biil and the Baggage Line bill. Also, petitions in favor of suppressing the sale of ewill milk, and from the Sixty-ninth and Seventy-first rogi- ments against correcting the tenure of oifice in tao militia. The Senate bill to amend the Corn Exchange charter was ordered to a third reading. The bills to amend the act for the regulation of the port of New York; to amend tho Tolls on Harlem Bridge act: to autborize John T. Mills to lay a railroad on the line of bis licensed stage route in New York, and to opea Franklin and other streets in the Seventeenth ward, Brocklyn, were all reported favorably from the commit- tees. On motion of Mr. Tang, the preamble and resolutions requiring John M. Neigon, Assistant District Attorney, © appear at the bar of the House in relation to the bribery cage of Jay Gibbons, were adopted, ana Mr. Nel- son was authorized to appear by counsel. The bill to prevent the sale of swill milk was reported for the consideration of the House. Tbe bill to amenc the ebarter of the city of New York im relation to the Bureau of Assessments, was takea up a Ganor made 8 stroug argemen tho bill ir. Barpy & strong ar it which was supported by Mi, Shaw and , who ea. deavored to prees it to a third reading. Mr. A«cuLanivs and Ur. Varian spoke against the bill, sateine) Megaanens Progress was reported by the committee. Mr Saw moved to disagree with the of the Committee of the Whole, and order the ill'to third reas! Mz Bianoy spoke at some length against the motion, and it was locte-38 10 29 ai Mr. Kerpan’s bill to authorize the incorporation of the Juvenile Reformatory Asylums was ordered to a third reading. o ‘The Assembly took a recess until seven o’olock P. M. The bill to provide meant for the supportot the 6 bi meant % ment was taken up in Commitiee of the Whole. Se On motion of Ur. Robertson, the tax for geaeral pur- Besptyiogedoncn ce pp rapamonyer me pore | as at firet reper 0 seven eights of # mi the was ‘ordered to a third reading. : the bill to enable the supervisors of New York to take lands for the building of a House in New York wap ordered to a third reading co enacting clause was stricken out of the following Allowing the jury in criminal trials to be judges of the law and the fact To prevent and punish the sale of butts, barrels and casks with brands used by manufacturers of ale, &o., by unautborized parties, Arrival of the North American—Sailing of the Bohemian. Portianp, Me , April 1 1861. ‘The steamship North Amerioan, from Liverpooi o 14th, vig Londonderry on the 15th ult., arrived ho: three o’clock this morning. er dates are aanticl- pated. ‘The steamship Bohemian saiiod af nine o'clock on Saturday evening for Liverponi, News from Rio Janciro, New Onukans, aprti 1, 1861. Bark A. Pendergast, from Rio Janeizo Fevruary 16, re- ports the yellow fever raging there. he political news frow tbe United States ha? unsettled everything in a business way,and great anxicty was manifested regarding the troubles. News from Sew Mexico. iyperewpesce april 1, 1861 The Santa Fe mail, with dates to the 18th ult, ar- rived here 0-day, bring one day «bead of time,’ but brings Do news of spretal imoortance. ‘The Indians were seen on the rou. The grass on the a to Fort Wise ts short. 10 contractors on this route are making preparations to run an express from Fort Wise to Canon City, to con- aect with this mail Lake Navigation ‘The propetior Olean, the @rst b at thtvegh trou Dam kirk, arrived ber Suoday morn': =, 1, 1861. Downren, April ‘The steamers Guebman and Elmtra, of the vow Yor apa Erie Railroad line, arrived here this afternoon with ‘ull cargoes from Cleveland, Sandusky aad Toiedo, boing the first arrivals of the sexson. Navigation is now entirely clear between this and the Western Lake Krio ports The Boston Bar and the Late Judge rag , April 1, 1861. A meeting of the Suffolk tar eld to-day ant committecs appointed to make a Moots to attend the funeral of Judge Shaw to. respect to his memory were agupted. The Body of Hon J. Shogidan Hogan found, Terxowto, C. W., April 1, 1861. ‘The body of Hoa. Joba sheridan H gan, a momber of the Canadien Parliament, who disappea-ed very myste rioualy something over ‘4g0, was found in the river Don on Saturday nig! » Resolutions of The Sloop-of-War Camberiand. Nowrotk Apri L, 1861, i kJ bao pes beget came up the harbor yee. jerday from the Roads. she exchanged sal receiving ship Peonsylvan: os i Fatal Affray il 1, Nowroux, april 1, 1861. James M. Land and William Gromsteas bad an affray at s parade at London Bridge, Princess Anae county, ow Saturday, in which Grim-tea) killed Land with » Daye- net. th were respectable farmers, with families. Marmets PHILADELPHiA STOCK BOARD, Btooks dull Pennsy! sane 08, oa; nent ul ‘ivenia 3 in Ravirond, 22116; Worries Canal 68, Ls rd 100d U1; Pennaylwante Ravteoad, 41 orohange om New York at par @ 1-10 por cont oiscount ‘New Onixans, April 1, 1961. Bows caused qieater firmness ia thy cot- 28,000 balee at 12%c,a 140. for mid- . Flodr stacy at $5 10 9 $5 12) for supertioe. Sterling 74 a 8% premium. Sight excoange York \ « \ premiam. Cotten—Salee of 1,000 bales at 12\¢0. for miadiing. Cae morket is very fiem. WARLEWTON, April 1, 1861. Cotton—Sales of 1,950 bales, The market is frm, Aveoets, april 1, 1861, Cotton—The stock at Auguste sod Hamburg le 24,540 bales, Baimimons, April 1, 1961. Flour buoyant. Ohio, Howard street and City dill $6 25. Wheat firm: red, $130 a $1 35; white, $t $1.67. Corn steady: mixed, 640 BT6.; yeliow, 6le.; white, 636. 8650 Provig‘oas dull anc unchaugod, Coffee firm ut 120. a 1550, Whiskey, 1740. « Af. Purtapeuenta, April 1, 1861. Flovr firm at $525 0 $5 37%. Wheat active ad. vavced Ie ate orn active and advancing. stonay at 110. a 17 go. on Now April 1, 1861. Timaree FRavcam.—“An Parc Contral,”’ a comic re- view, after the Paris fashion, will be given for the first time to-mght. [t is sain to have bern written is collabo. ration vy the two oditors of the Frouch prow of this city. @